Dems Propose More Spending to Fix Budget Shortfall

Only the Dems could propose a budget fix that not only includes increasing taxes, but more spending!

The Senate Democrats’ plan for solving the state’s budget shortfall includes a tax on hospitals and the closing of tax loopholes corporations use.

It also would authorize a car rental tax increase to pay for a three-county rail line.

Emphasis mine.

1. Actually, that’s increasing taxes to increase spending to justify increasing taxes some more.

   Posted by steveegg on March 20, 2008 at 1333 hrs




2. Actually, that’s increasing taxes to increase spending to justify increasing taxes some more.
   Posted by steveegg on March 20, 2008 at 1333 hrs

   Oww, you just made my head hurt going around in circles like that.

   Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 1416 hrs




3. But the liberals think this is a good idea- tax and tax.  That is why I meet so many people from Wisconsin, who have moved to Las Vegas from Wisconsin.  It’s not just not the weather folks, it is the taxes, or lack of taxes that drive so many people out Wisconsin to other states. 
   At our school, of about 150 teachers, 9 are from Wisconsin.  That is true through out the school district.

   Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 1426 hrs




4. Lena Taylor is one of the 6 Democrats on the committee to vote for the tax increase of $559 million dollars.

   Can you imagine what she will do with taxes if she were to be Milwaukee County Executive?

   Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 1452 hrs




5. It doesn’t really seem any stranger than the idea of cutting taxes to raise revenue, that longtime shibboleth of supply side economics. 

   Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 1628 hrs




6. It doesn’t really seem any stranger than the idea of cutting taxes to raise revenue, that longtime shibboleth of supply side economics.  grin
   Posted by apc on March 20, 2008 at 1628 hrs

   The difference being that cutting taxes actually works

   Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 1847 hrs




7. Guess the SSDC wants to put the Wirch seat in play…

   Posted by on March 20, 2008 at 1916 hrs




8. Oww, you just made my head hurt going around in circles like that.

   Posted by syop01 on March 20, 2008 at 1416 hrs

   I’ll put it in simpler terms; the drive to the #1-taxed locale in the world would continue unabated under the Rats’ plan.

   Or, if your head wasn’t already spinning, I would point out that the original RTA portion of the car rental tax went to lobby the Legislature to increase that tax.

   Posted by steveegg on March 20, 2008 at 1917 hrs




9. "We cannot, We must not, and I will not raise taxes. Wisconsin families pay too much.” - Jim Doyle

   Posted by on March 21, 2008 at 0745 hrs




10. Jim Doyle and company must think they are Moses - because they are leading what will be a huge exodus from Wisconsin.

    Posted by on March 21, 2008 at 0901 hrs




11. Maybe you missed that the only senator to offer a spending motion during the committee hearing on the senate plan was Sen. Kananvas, a Republican.  His amendment would have spent almost $1 million and of course contained no way to pay for it.  Seems like that’s how Bush and the federal Republicans got us deficits as far as the eye could see.  Spend spend spend, and don’t even try to figure out how to pay for it.  Put it on the credit card.

    Posted by on March 21, 2008 at 1656 hrs